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In reply to the discussion: I want to make something absolutely clear... [View all]Ocelot II
(121,842 posts)As a general rule I think grave dancing is tacky, because even awful people have at least a few friends and relatives who love them and would be sad that they are dead, and in light of that it would be kind of cruel to celebrate. But when Satan finally calls him home, I don't think anyone will be very sad, not even his immediate family. Oh, Melanoma will spend a few grand on a black designer dress and veil, and she'll do the grieving widow routine, and Gums and Junior and the rest of that nest of vipers will lie about what a great man he was and how they'll miss him and they'll insist on the flashiest possible state funeral, but as soon as they're off camera and before his stinking corpse is cold they'll be looking for the will and start fighting over the estate, or what's left of it. So I won't feel the slightest twinge of guilt over my celebratory Macarena and my grand jetés and gavottes and gigues and drunken break dancing which will continue until I'm out of liquor and have collapsed from exhaustion. So I'll sleep and then I'll dance some more.